The Acts of the Democracies

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1997

Iraq

Under pressure from the USA and UK, the United Nations continues sanctions on Iraq.

The World Food Program and UNICEF report that 1,211,285 children died of
embargo-related causes between August 1990 and August 1997. This total is ten times the 130,000 people that Amnesty
International estimated to have died in Iraq between 1979 and 1989 as a result of the country's human-rights record.

In 1989 the World Health Organization had recorded Iraq as having 92% access to clean water,
93% access to high quality health care and with high educational and nutritional standards.